The Inevitability of a leader
TO APPRECIATE the value of a leader, think of a ship without a captain. Or an aeroplane without a pilot. Imagine a team of individually skilled footballers without a coach. The vehicle of any community will be on a free fall to anarchy without a skilled driver behind the wheel.
Welcome to Leading Right. I am Abiodun Fijabi.
Competent business consultants called up to revamp an ailing company know their first major assignment is to sack the top management. Buck passing stops with a leader. A community going no where needs a leader who knows the way. A nation that has derailed from their commonly shared values and goals needs a skilled leader who is able to mobilize the populace towards goals of beneficial permanence.
It is easy to blame the environment for the challenges facing any community. A business community may blame the social economic and political environment for its woes. But that is before it gets a good leader who can harness the resources available to him to achieve the company objectives. A family may have reached a point of no return and divorce may be imminent. But wait until one leader arises on the scene and the story changes. A star-studded team may be losing match after match to the consternation of the owner and fans. The owner makes an all-important decision – fires his coach and hires a new one. The fortune of the team changes as the team finds back its rhythm.
The same is true of a life that is in crisis. When to fail has become a habit and the future looks bleak, the natural thing to do is to give up. But let the leader in the failure rise up and the situation changes. Suddenly success becomes a possibility and hope is kept alive.
Besides blaming the circumstance, we are tempted to blame others. Laying the responsibility of challenges we face on others seems to relieve us of our guilt. An alcoholic husband holds his nagging wife responsible for his drinking habit. A corrupt politician blames his corruptive practices on the endless demands for hand-outs by the electorates. A trader, whose business has suffered some reverses in recent times, thinks his enemy is the trader next door.
If only the circumstances could change. If only others would do what they are supposed to do. Where there are many “if onlys” the society hopes but in vain. The society’s hope is hinged, not on the endless complaints and wishful thinking, but on the emergence of true leaders, who are ready to pay the necessary sacrifice to take the challenges headlong.
Dear friend, what or who are you blaming for the challenges facing any community to which you belong? The time may be ripe for you to change your thinking. What your community needs is a leader with new ideas that will propel change. Think about it; that leader may be you. Yes, I mean, you.
Till we meet again tomorrow.
Welcome to Leading Right. I am Abiodun Fijabi.
Competent business consultants called up to revamp an ailing company know their first major assignment is to sack the top management. Buck passing stops with a leader. A community going no where needs a leader who knows the way. A nation that has derailed from their commonly shared values and goals needs a skilled leader who is able to mobilize the populace towards goals of beneficial permanence.
It is easy to blame the environment for the challenges facing any community. A business community may blame the social economic and political environment for its woes. But that is before it gets a good leader who can harness the resources available to him to achieve the company objectives. A family may have reached a point of no return and divorce may be imminent. But wait until one leader arises on the scene and the story changes. A star-studded team may be losing match after match to the consternation of the owner and fans. The owner makes an all-important decision – fires his coach and hires a new one. The fortune of the team changes as the team finds back its rhythm.
The same is true of a life that is in crisis. When to fail has become a habit and the future looks bleak, the natural thing to do is to give up. But let the leader in the failure rise up and the situation changes. Suddenly success becomes a possibility and hope is kept alive.
Besides blaming the circumstance, we are tempted to blame others. Laying the responsibility of challenges we face on others seems to relieve us of our guilt. An alcoholic husband holds his nagging wife responsible for his drinking habit. A corrupt politician blames his corruptive practices on the endless demands for hand-outs by the electorates. A trader, whose business has suffered some reverses in recent times, thinks his enemy is the trader next door.
If only the circumstances could change. If only others would do what they are supposed to do. Where there are many “if onlys” the society hopes but in vain. The society’s hope is hinged, not on the endless complaints and wishful thinking, but on the emergence of true leaders, who are ready to pay the necessary sacrifice to take the challenges headlong.
Dear friend, what or who are you blaming for the challenges facing any community to which you belong? The time may be ripe for you to change your thinking. What your community needs is a leader with new ideas that will propel change. Think about it; that leader may be you. Yes, I mean, you.
Till we meet again tomorrow.
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